Based on its recent analysis of the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled smart buildings market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Lynxspring with the 2017 North American Award for Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership. The superior flexibility, speed, and reliability of Lynxspring's innovative solutions are accelerating the IoT trend in the North American market. Decades of experience in the building automation industry endow the company with the expertise to develop smarter, better performing, and more value-driven solutions for customers across multiple applications.

"Lynxspring developed a strategy of offering exceptional value at multiple points of the IoT chain by providing connectivity, integration, and interoperability to thousands of facilities in governments, military bases, commercial buildings, and schools and universities," said Frost & Sullivan Principal Consultant, Konkana Khaund. "It's competitively strategic focus on platform interoperability is an important differentiator--delivering an open architecture that is endpoint agnostic."

The outstanding, customer-centric capabilities and solutions from Lynxspring include:

JENEsys Edge™, a new generation of fully programmable IoT controllers combining the Niagara Framework® with Lynxspring's Onyxx® platform with IO on-board, and web server duties into a single device.

Lynx CyperPro, the industry's first cybersecurity solution in the building space, which is a layered technology platform with rigorous security mechanisms

Onyxx®, an embedded edge platform

Helixx®, an open-source automation technology that eliminates the need for middleware while ensuring security and peak performance for a variety of IoT applications.

In addition to its open, end-to-end IoT platform for more than 250 system integrators, it serves original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that license and purchase customized solutions. Lynxspring adopts a collaborative, "3D" (discovery, development, and deployment) product development approach, and leverages its thought leadership and deep understanding of the building automation industry to develop and deploy customer-centric offerings that involve clients at each developmental milestone.

Lynxspring also launched the cloud-based Edge to Enterprise (E2E) solution, comprising the Helixx® IP stack, Onyxx® hardware platform, and Connexxion® from its sister company Connexx Energy, which provides cloud services. E2E presents clients with rapid prototyping control development methodology, thereby shortening system integration and overall deployment time. It is ramping up the E2E platform to enable real-time analytics at the edge.

Lynxspring aligned its strategies to identify substantial market opportunities ripe for monitoring equipment for predictive and preventative maintenance. Subsequently, it designed its solutions with superior monitoring abilities to identify manufacturing efficiencies and best practices better. The success of its solutions drive it to beyond the North American market, into the United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, and it is actively exploring other markets internationally.

"Lynxspring seeks to deliver an exceptional deployment and support experience and works closely with clients to determine the best-fit solution. Its dedication to customer value is also evident in its sponsorship of Project Haystack, a nonprofit entity focused on developing common standards to streamline the interchange of data among smart devices, systems, and equipment," noted Khaund. "By developing and defining a simple data-tagging approach and standard models for common types of equipment systems, Lynxspring and its partners are spurring the adoption of the IoT all over the world."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that leverages competitive intelligence to successfully execute a competitive strategy that results in stronger market share, competitive brand positioning, and customer satisfaction.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

About Lynxspring

Embracing open software and hardware platforms, Lynxspring develops, manufactures and distributes edge-to-enterprise solutions and IoT technology for today's intelligent buildings, energy management, and equipment control and specialty machine-to-machine applications. Lynxspring's technologies simplify connectivity, integration, interoperability and data accuracy and exchange from the edge to the enterprise.

For more information about Lynxspring, visit www.lynxspring.com.

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